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	Body and Soul: And Justice For All
		Presumably, the jailers and administrators of Mobile County were once school children. They too, rose every day and put their hands on their heart as they recited the Pledge. They, too, pledged allegiance to a flag that symbolizes “justice for all” including justice for mentally ill panhandlers.
		Our children recite the Pledge 180 times per year. On one of those occasions, perhaps they should be told the story of James Carpenter. Perhaps they would come to understand that the Pledge is a statement of aspiration not fact.
		Carpenter was also the father of two girls, aged 11 and 14 at the time this story took place. Despite his mental illness, his ex-wife described him as being a “decent father” who remembered his girls' birthdays.
	bodyandsoul.typepad.com /blog/2003/09/and_justice_for.html (1403 words)

	KPFK Online Pledge
		The Film Club is a group of KPFK subscribers who, for an annual pledge of $150 to the station, are entitled to attend (with a guest) at least 12 films per year.
		While we can only promise 12 films per year, the Film Club often has 2-3 screenings per month; and, in fact, we offered over 60 films last year.
		Please select the amount that you would like to pledge:
	www.vpop.net /~kpfk/pledge_pop.html (428 words)

	Snatch
		It seems films right now are dealing with darker topics (The Pledge, Traffic, The Gift), but with Snatch, it is easy to sit back, relax and enjoy this fun film...and to remind us why we go to the movies.
		Snatch, Guy Ritchie's follow up to his 1999 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, has the same style and characters as Lock, Stock, but definitely holds its own.
		Snatch erupts onto the screen like an exploded music video- but for once, this is a good thing.
	www.dvdtohome.co.uk /review/Snatch.html (312 words)

	Snatch (2001): Reviews
		Since the main reason I go to movies is to engage with characters, I prefer "The Pledge," the film opening today by Madonna's first husband, Sean Penn, rather than this stylish fluff by her second spouse.
		If the film is too similar to Ritchie's first movie, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" with its multiple story lines, complex plotting, and double-crossing antics, it's at least colorfully told with dialogue that shines with the inventive slang of Ritchie's screenplay.
		Snatch is nothing if not watchable: It has the insane, popcorn rhythms of a Road Runner cartoon, and for that reason alone it's a minor masterpiece.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/snatch (1215 words)

	Amazon.com: Jeffrey (1995) : Video
		Surprisingly lighthearted and witty, Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey (based on his off-Broadway play) was one of the first films to tackle the AIDS crisis without patting itself on the back or offering everything up in a sobering movie-of-the-week scenario.
		The film should be in EVERY home and is a tribute to love.
		Jeffrey basically says "why bother to meet new people if I know I will be refusing to have sex with them?" There's no hint of him even considering that there may be more to men than rock-hard abs and what's between their legs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792845269?v=glance (1497 words)

	Film
		There are film festivals, such as the one at Pordenone, in Italy, that undertook a special pledge to maintain and restore silent films.
		The joke of the film is that it's all so mundane that it could be a day in the life of a van driver or an electrician.
		So he is the ideal person to be producer-in-residence at the East End Film Festival, a week-long celebration of independent film, including six UK premieres, shorts, documentaries and masterclasses, and a showcase of films by local film-makers.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /film/index.jsp?service=rss (5689 words)

	Cleopatra (1934)
		The film's screenplay by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence was based on an adaptation of historical material by Barlett Cormack.
		The legendary Egyptian Queen of the Nile princess/seductress, Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) becomes the Queen and ruler of Egypt by her manipulative, wily, and seductive ways with the Roman men in her life: Julius Caesar (Warren William) (who is assassinated) and Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon).
		Cleopatra falls dramatically at Antony's feet to pledge herself to him, and he vows to fight with her, disavowing his allegiance to Rome:
	www.filmsite.org /cleo.html (1225 words)

	Budding film writer gets Doylestown screening
		The movie is described as a "supernatural horror film," which takes place on a college campus, in which a process called 'ghosting' replaces hazing for fraternity and sorority pledges.
		The 12-minute short film, produced while Susco was a student at the University of Southern California film school in 1997, is about "recovery and rebirth from a tragedy," according to an associate of Susco's.
		And the Buckingham native's love of his jobs-namely screenwriting and film directing-have garnered him a respectable amount of fame and critical acclaim.
	www.davidhanauer.com /people/susco/budding_film_writer.html (551 words)

	2001 SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL
		Sarasota’s closing night film was Sean Penn’s wonderful film, The Pledge, which stars Jack Nicholson as a retiring Reno police detective hunting down a serial killer who specializes in raping and murdering little blonde girls.
		The Unscarred is an American film set in Germany (with largely German talent behind the camera) about four former students returning to their Munich college 20 years after graduation, only to find themselves in a treacherous game of blackmail and deception.
		The domestic independent films seemed to be either heartwarming family films or dramas about hitmen and gangsters.
	www.sick-boy.com /2001sarasota.htm (1283 words)

	censorship in film
		An estimated 10 million Catholics signed the pledge, which inspired the Legion to devise a rating system ranging from Class A-I, films that were morally unobjectionable for general patronage, to Class C, films that were condemned, "positively bad." The church had a powerful weapon, which the MPPDA and movie companies soon realized.
		Joseph Burstyn, the film’s distributor appealed to the Supreme Court saying that movie censorship was a violation of the First Amendment and "that the term 'sacrilegious' violated due process because it was vague and provided no guidelines for the scope of administrative authority" (Jowett 264).
		Editing films from an NC-17 rating to an R, and including a small demographic of judges on the rating board, are two examples of censorship.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/cis/wp/langes/censorship.html (2612 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Old School' fails the test - Feb. 20, 2003
		The idiotic premise of this film has these three supposedly adult men trying to recapture the irrepressible fun of their college years by starting their own off-campus fraternity.
		Once the boys get set up in their den of iniquity, they recruit a pledge class full of boozers and losers, including a 90-year-old man, a couple of complete nerds, a grossly overweight black guy, and whoever else that Central Casting sent over that day.
		"Old School" is brought to us by the same "creative" team which gave us that other ode to diminished brain cells, "Road Trip." Director/producer/screenwriter Todd Phillips and his co-writer, Scot Armstrong, have once again lowered the threshhold for entertainment.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/20/review.old.school (579 words)

	Deauville
		Sarandon's outburst followed a pledge by film director Robert Altman, who said that he felt it would be a "catastrophe for the world if George Bush is elected".
		Speaking at the Deauville Film Festival, where she received a Lifetime's Achievement Award, Susan Sarandon claimed that making a stand against the death penalty was almost deemed politically incorrect in America.
		She accused Bush of having used the death penalty as "a political soundbite to get elected".
	www.chrisbaker.co.uk /deauville.htm (579 words)

	Home
		Our members participate in film restoration pledge drives, chat weekly, and produce the world's only all-cliffhanger film festival every year, SerialFest!
		Dedicated to preserving films made in Ithaca, New York, including the serials THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE, MYSTERIES OF MYRA, PATRIA, and THE EAGLE'S EYE
		We are dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the lost form of the movie serial.
	www.serialsquadron.com (620 words)

	Film Analysis
		The name comes from a fictional lodge to which Stan and Ollie pledge allegiance in their 1933 feature film of the same name.
		Film begins with a monstrous B-52 bomber in mid air being re-fuelled for a long voyage the movie is about to take its audience along.
		One of my favourite scenes in the film has to be the phone conversation between the US and the Russian President; Kubrick constructs a perfect stereotypical image of the Russian President, even though one does not see or hear him at all.
	film-analysis.blogspot.com (620 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Despotism
		This film should be shown in U.S. classrooms again, but since it is too close to the reality of the day, AND shows how the Pledge of Allegiance was originally done (without the mention of "God" added by the Joe McCarthy crowd a few years later), I doubt the current Bush regime would allow it.
		The film presents four sliding scales, two of which are indicators of a current state of despotism (concentrated power, concentrated respect), and two which are danger signs for future despotism (concentrated wealth, restricted/controlled information).
		The film pre-dates the NWO and the WTO, but as there are no positive examples given (only blessed Americans with hands o'er hearts pledging allegiance to the flag) it's clear that despotism could never happen here.
	www.archive.org /movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=00178 (620 words)

	pledgesalute
		What Winkler fails to realize is that every film he cites was produced after 1892 and thus after the widespread use of the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, and it’s original straight-arm salute.
		Winkler cites the American Ben-Hur (1907) or the Italian Nerone (1908), although such films did not yet standardize the salute or make it exclusively Roman.
		The salute was then used in famous films in the early 1900's, often in fictitious "Roman" scenes, and including a film that involved D'Annunzio entitled "Cabiria" and written of elsewhere.
	ftp.ij.net /rex/pledgesalute.html (620 words)

	Information : 1890 : fuelled.co.uk UK directory
		Congress establishes the Oklahoma Territory on unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory, breaking a 60-year-old pledge to preserve this area exclusively for Native Americans forced from the...
		1890 Oklahoma Territory census is one of the few existing state census records in the United States.
		1890 Federal Census, which was destroyed by a fire at the.....
	www.fuelled.co.uk /search.asp?q=1890 (620 words)

	BBC News FILM Sexy Beast triumphs at awards
		Bifa founder Elliot Grove paid tribute to the films nominated, pointing out that this was a particularly good year for independent movies.
		British cinematographer Chris Menges, who worked on The Pledge, The Killing Fields, The Mission and Michael Collins won the lifetime achievement award.
		Links to more Film stories are at the foot of the page.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1618000/1618354.stm (556 words)

	pledgesalute
		What Winkler fails to realize is that every film he cites was produced after 1892 and thus after the widespread use of the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, and it’s original straight-arm salute.
		The salute was then used in famous films in the early 1900's, often in fictitious "Roman" scenes, and including a film that involved D'Annunzio entitled "Cabiria" and written of elsewhere.
		According to Dr. Martin Winkler in "The Roman Salute on Film" of the American Philological Association, the salute is not in any Roman art or text.
	ftp.ij.net /rex/pledgesalute.html (556 words)

	Bessie Learn
		Miss Learn also appeared in the experimental talkie The Tenderfootâs Temperance Pledge in which a record went along with the film.
		Yes, there is something about Bessie Learn, and thanks to the miracle of film preservation, it will be enjoyed by new generations of film lovers for years to come.
		"The American Film Institute Catalog" lists her as having appeared in The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917) and The Lost Batallion (1919), but I believe these claims are mistaken.
	www.classicimages.com /1999/july99/learn.html (660 words)

	Academy Pledges Additional $250,000 to Preservation Foundation
		It is the charitable affiliate of the National Film Preservation Board, which annually adds to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress titles which constitute a national roster of films that have contributed significantly to American culture and whose preservation must be assured.
		"Orphan films" are films such as newsreels, independent films, documentaries and avant-garde, ethnic and public domain material which have no studio or other entity with an economic motive to save them.
		That pledge was paid off this year and the Academy's Board of Governors ok'd the additional donation, to be paid at $50,000 a year.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2000/00.08.30.html (309 words)

	...And Justice for All - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"...And Justice for All" is best known as the last line of the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America.
		...And Justice for All (film), a 1979 film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Al Pacino
		All in the Family, as a draft working title for this television series
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/...And_Justice_for_All (163 words)

	THE MOVIE PAGES presents SOMETHINGS GOTTA GIVE Starring JACK NICHOLSON & DIANE KEATON somethingsgottagive.htm
		Films as recently as "Anger Management", "About Schmidt", "The Pledge" and, of course, that academy award winning role in "As Good As It Get's".
		"The film coasts along smoothly on the charisma of its stars, and if Keaton and Nicholson aren't the hottest screen couple of the year they may be the most convincing."
		The answer is in some ways yes, but don't lose hope ladies for "Something's Gotta Give" is somewhat of a lesson in life for Jack's character the 63 year old Harry Sanborn.
	www.impactservices.net.au /movies/somethingsgottagive.htm (1774 words)

	Rookie @ BaseballLiving.com
		Rookies (in the sporting sense) can be submitted to hazing as a pledge in some clubs.
		For the earlier, unrelated Clint Eastwood film, see The Rookie (1990 movie).
		For the Walt Disney Pictures film about Jim Morris, see The Rookie (2002 movie).
	www.baseballliving.com /about/Rookie (702 words)

	Combustible Celluloid - About Schmidt (2002)
		In 2001 he gave the year's finest performance in The Pledge, a film that was completely misunderstood and ignored by nearly everyone.
		Schmidt can't relate to anyone else in the film, neither his daughter, nor her fiancée, nor her fiancee's strange family -- including Kathy Bates as the mother in one of her trademark full-blown boisterous performances.
		Director Payne (Citizen Ruth, Election) perfectly taps into the deep reservoir of sadness that 60 years on this earth can fill, and all the comedy in the film is splashed with it.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2002/aboutsch.shtml (702 words)

	GreenCine product main - A Place in the Sun (1951)
		Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser 's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun.
		Even those 1951 bobbysoxers who wouldn't have been caught dead poring through the Dreiser original were mesmerized by the loving, near-erotic full facial closeups of Clift and Taylor as they pledge eternal devotion.
		A huge improvement over the 1931 An American Tragedy, directed by Josef von Sternberg, A Place in the Sun softens some of the rough edges of Dreiser's naturalism, most notably in the passages pertaining to George's and Angela's romance.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=3041 (702 words)

	Linas-video-ad-ff.txt
		La bride sur le cou / The pledge Plein soleil Plenty Plucking the daisy Plunkett & Macleane Pobres pero sinverguenzas Pocahontas II viaje a un nuevo mundo / Pocahontas the legend / Pocketful of miracles Point blank Point break Point of no return Poison ivy 2.
		Volume two, Tales of friendship Princess Tam Tam The Prisoner of Zenda The Prisoner of Zenda The prisoner of Zenda The private affairs of Bel Ami Private Benjamin.
		Salem's Lot, the movie Salome Salt of the earth The Salton sea Sam's son Michael Landon's own story / Same river twice Same time, next year Sammy and Rosie get laid Samson and Delilah Samurai I Musashi Miyamoto / Samurai III : Duel at Ganryu Island Samurai Rebellion Samurai trilogy Samurai trilogy.
	www.lincc.lib.or.us /lf/Linas-video-ad-ff.txt (2062 words)

	Old Oligarch's Painted Stoa
		As for other OT texts which discuss the nature of Boaz's symbolic action of spreading the cloak, compare Ezek 16:8, where Israel is depicted as an absolutely destitute maiden (like Ruth) and Yahweh spreads His cloak over Israel as a pledge of betrothal.
		According to most doctors, their decision-making authority about your child's care is greater than that of your religious doctrine and your parental directives.
		The decree of the Council of Ancyra, held in Asia Minor in 314, strongly influenced the Church of the West, and it was often cited as authoritative in later enactments against homosexual practices.
	old-oligarch.blogspot.com (10466 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Despotism
		This film should be shown in U.S. classrooms again, but since it is too close to the reality of the day, AND shows how the Pledge of Allegiance was originally done (without the mention of "God" added by the Joe McCarthy crowd a few years later), I doubt the current Bush regime would allow it.
		The film presents four sliding scales, two of which are indicators of a current state of despotism (concentrated power, concentrated respect), and two which are danger signs for future despotism (concentrated wealth, restricted/controlled information).
		The film clearly states that communities that rank poorly are prone to despotism, not inherently despotic.
	www.archive.org /details/Despotis1946 (4498 words)

	Oscars Campaign Money Donated To Refugees
		Anny Slater of Moondance Pictures, the writer and director of THE BALL, in making her pledge says, “I started to set up advertising and screenings for THE BALL in Los Angeles and elsewhere and in the process I began to lose sight of why I made the film in the first place.
		THE BALL is an Australian comedy short film that pokes fun at Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his treatment of refugees.
		The Australian producer of an Australian comedy film THE BALL, in the ballot for the 2004 Academy Awards best live action short, will donate her entire publicity budget of $10,000 to Amnesty International for refugee assistance.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2003/12/prweb92422.htm (595 words)

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